Senior Wired Network Test and QA Engineer

Description

• Design, develop and execute network test solutions for wireless infrastructure products, including scripts for automated regression testing.
• Identify, reproduce, characterize and log bugs.
• Verify fixes for bugs and plan/execute additional tests needed for fix verification.
• Execute performance, interoperability, and system level tests.
• Analyze failures and defects, and recommend corrective actions.
• Proactively work with engineers debugging software and hardware solutions during new product development.
• Set up customer configurations and test at System and Solution level.
• Develop bootloader for handset.
• Software programming and testing and using C/C++ in Embedded domain, and/or developing integration scripts (in Perl or UNIX Shell Scripts.

• Must have Automation experience, Wired Protocol Testing and Switching experience.
• Must have at least five years of Wireless, 802.11 a/b/g/n, hands-on test experience.
• Must have experience of Functional & Feature testing as well as System level testing.
• Ability to automate is required.
• B.S. EE/CS required with two to three years of relevant experience.
• Must have strong experience in WLAN testing in advanced/security protocols -WEP, 802.1x, WPA/TKIP, WPA2/AES/802.11i, WME/WMM/802.11e, QoS.
• Ability to automate is required. Solid automation experience (Perl/Tcl) a plus.
• Must have experience of Functional/Feature Testing as well as System Testing.
• Strong knowledge of WLAN, L2/L3 (Ethernet, TCP/IP), SNMP, HTTP, Linux/UNIX/Windows operating systems.
• Must be self-motivated and passionate about software testing and be thorough and detail oriented.
• Demonstrate experience of using network monitoring and analysis tools to debug Ethernet/Wireless/IP layer problems.
• Must be able to learn new technologies quickly.
• Good oral and written communication skills are required.
• Familiar with software development in C/C++.
• Must have good interpersonal communications and be able to understand a technological problem set and describe the situation under test to fellow software team members.
• Strong interest in Embedded domain.
• Knowledge in Embedded operating systems (WinCe, Palm OS, Linux Vrtx, Vxworks, etc.
• Experience in Multimedia Systems (image and video compression), DSP or Wireless baseband an advantage.
• Experience in Linux programming preferred.

SKILLS

WLAN testing in advanced/security protocols -WEP, 802.1x, WPA/TKIP, WPA2/AES/802.11i, WME/WMM/802.11e, QoS, WLAN, L2/L3 (Ethernet, TCP/IP), SNMP, HTTP, Linux/UNIX/Windows operating systems

Synectics is an Equal Opportunity Employer.